Windows 7 cursor auto click through??

[svogg]

can anyone help a tech novice turn off the feature that automatically "clicks through" to a link when the cursor hovers over a link??? very annoying. hopefully you CAN turn it off. thx

 

[kemical]

Hi Svogg,
apart from the settings you can see in the screenshot, I can't think of any that would allow you to 'auto-click' on links....
This makes me wonder if the mouse itself is at fault?

 

[svogg]

cursor auto-clicks

it's a touchpad and it is weird. I move it to an open tab in I.E. and hover, and sometimes it just goes to that tab. sometimes when it is hovering on click through - poof - it clicks through. sometimes not.

Ugh.

 

[kemical]

Hmm...so have you installed 7 on your lappie (guessing here) and installed all the necessary drivers? If you can't find drivers for 7, try using ones for vista as they should be fine in 'most' cases...

 

[Don Wharton]

It is quite frustrating to see these threads where a legitimate question is responded to by people assuming that the person asking the question has done something wrong. I have an HP laptop which had this extremely annoying feature out of the box. As far as I can tell this is a common experience and no one seems to be able to say how it happens. There has to be someone who can get an answer to this.

 

[davehc]

Well. The thread is about two years old. As the op did not respond to Kemical's last suggestion, i would guess the subscribers decided the problem was solved.
In your case, I would recommend you start a new thread.